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78 sakka: Your Majesty, I am not Sushil but Sakka. I came down from Heaven to teach this man a lesson!
79 narrator 2: He turned to the trembling and downcast Sushil.
80 sakka: Do you see? You are so stingy, even your wife and children deny you!
81 sushil: (moans)
82 sakka: There is but one hope for you. Will you stop being such a miser?
83 sushil: (hesitantly) Well . . . maybe I could be a little more generous.
84 sakka: (sternly) A little more?
85 sushil: Well . . . maybe a little more than a little more.
86 sakka: You had better be a lot more generous. Or I’ll be back!
87 narrator 3: And with another flash of light, he vanished.
88 rajah: (to Sushil) Well!
89 narrator 1: . . . said the Rajah to Sushil.
90 rajah: It seems you indeed have been taught a good lesson!
91 sushil: I suppose so, Your Majesty.
92 narrator 4: He turned shyly to Nirmala and held out his hand.
93 sushil: (questioningly) Wife?
94 narrator 2: Nirmala took it.
95 nirmala: (smiling at him) Husband! Oh, Sushil, let us celebrate! I have an idea. Let us make sweet rice dumplings for the entire town!
96 sushil: (gasps)
97 narrator 3: Sushil gasped in horror.
98 narrator 1: His legs shook.
99 narrator 4: He groaned and clenched his teeth.
100 narrator 2: His face grew red, then purple. 101 narrator 3: Then he squeaked,
102 sushil: All right!
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